[Marsh.]

Sounds like someone who is very unreasonable and impatient if it's only for a couple of minutes at a time.

Our neighbours are really paranoid about their two dogs and are always asking us if the dogs are disturbing us or apologising for barking but we actually rarely ever hear them.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

p.s we cudnt get thru to the guy @ the council who the letter is off. Also ive just bought an anti barking collar which I don't think il use its got 2 prong things on it. I was going to try it on the dog that barks the most, but il just use an anti bark muzzle if I have to.

I wouldn't use those anti bark things just to please someone else, they inflict pain. Are they even legal?

Get advice on how you could quite them down from somewhere like the Dog's Trust, from a local Kennels or something.

[Kazanne]

Aw Mizzy,I hope you can sort it,i know how you love the dogs, fingers crossed for you,I think maybe ask the dogs trust too to see what they suggest.

[Novo]

More to the point, how much do you spend on dog food a week for all those whippets

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Novo

More to the point, how much do you spend on dog food a week for all those whippets

[mizzy25]

I really don't see why I need to silence them though as its only for a few mins @ a time like ive said. as for the anti bark muzzles I think there actually anti bite muzzles and no they don't inflict pain @ all its only a bit of material that u put round the dogs mouth, I actually have one dog who barks with one on anyway lol but the rest r a bit thick so they have something round there mouth and they *think* they cant bark lol they can still breath and get water with one on and like I say one still barks shes in the house anyway.

[Verbal]

Maybe they would benefit from training, I don't mean from you, one of the approved dog trainers that are around.

I work with someone who used to be a dog trainer in the Army, there was a family who had a couple of rottweilers who were out of control, they couldn't take them out on a lead or anything. He spent an hour with them and they were like new born babies.

[mizzy25]

Originally Posted by Novo

More to the point, how much do you spend on dog food a week for all those whippets

peter goes to a warehouse place about once a month and gets about 4 big bags of food called gain its about Ł14.00 per bag and we prob use a bag a week, but they also get meat, fish, pasta and tinned tomatoes, vitamins, oils on their foods etc etc. he also gets 4 bags of paper dog bedding which gets checked and cleaned daily and fluffed up etc.

[mizzy25]

I hope whoever has complained gets flippn broken into and the police come and ask me if the dogs barked. il say no coz they've been trained not too lol

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

I hope whoever has complained gets flippn broken into and the police come and ask me if the dogs barked. il say no coz they've been trained not too lol

[mizzy25]

anyway im going to Scotland in a week and a half time cant wait to get away. I hope the council say that dogs were barking that week so I can say well u can f off coz I was away! theres loads of dogs round here by the way not just mine. there is a guard dog on the industrial estate over the road and that did actually start mine off last thurs, I nearly broke me neck running out to see why they were barking. Like I say im hardly ever out anyway!

[Novo]

I cant believe a bunch of whippets are on a healthier diet then me

[mizzy25]

Originally Posted by Novo

I cant believe a bunch of whippets are on a healthier diet then me

pmsl and me

[Ammi]

...hmm, but it doesn’t sound as though the people who have complained have got any convincing evidence of your dogs barking because they’ve been asked to keep a diary ....which anyway will disprove that they’re barking all the time .... and it’s probable that even if it comes to them installing sound equipment from the diary, they’ll see that it’s only for short whiles at feeding times and because you have racing dogs, it would be inevitable to have some barking but it’s not excessive or ‘disturbing’ so your neighbours have to be reasonable as well and a bit tolerant...I think it sounds as though it’s just someone being really difficult and contrary and nothing will probably come of their complaint Mizzy...you kind of can't have dogs with no barking at all, that's the way of it and hopefully that's what they'll be told....

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

I hope whoever has complained gets flippn broken into and the police come and ask me if the dogs barked. il say no coz they've been trained not too lol

Nice one Mizzy

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Novo

I cant believe a bunch of whippets are on a healthier diet then me

So much could be said in reply to this post.

I better not though

[mizzy25]

Just to put things in persective. at 7pm one of the dogs barked twice so I went out to see them all gave them a wee bit fuss and a biscuit each and since then and its now nearly 10pm they haven't even come out their kennels let alone bark. So is this unreasonable?

[Saph]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Oh no has someone reported you mizzy?

DRAG HA

[mizzy25]

yeah saph read it all and u will see why? think they just flippin tossers

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Josy

So much could be said in reply to this post.

I better not though

Wot?

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

yeah saph read it all and u will see why? think they just flippin tossers

snatch their weaves Mizzy

[Novo]

Originally Posted by Josy

So much could be said in reply to this post.

I better not though

Come on then. Let's hear another one of your crap jokes

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

Ok guys many thanks for the replies. Il tell you the story. I have 3 dogs that live indoors and occasionally bark in the conservatory or garden but its not them. I have 4 dogs that live outside in 2 grand kennels so they r not crap kennels. they r 5ft x 6ft and they each have 5ft x 6ft run and r right next to each other. bear and mink brother and sister live in one and gem and tinsel, mother and daughter live in the other. so none of them are alone. gem has been out there for 5 years and hates the house, bear and mink have been out there 3 years. tinsel since January. The letter from the council states that they bark early in the morning and throughout the day. Now im not disputing that they do do this. early in the morning is 6.45am for their breakfast, it gets light about bloody 4am!!!!! its literally for about a minute until I can get 4 bowls into their runs, the kennels r approx. 5 ft if that away from the house. I take gem out alone @ 9am (shes bad to walk) and the rest get some milk and again there maybe 2 mins of barking. little bits of barking will go on until I take the rest out, but it is not continsously @ all. once they've all been walked, fed and bowls of water filled up generally by 12 noon they all go back into kennels and there is usually completer silence until I have to go out say about 1.45pm and they may bark if I out the indoor dogs out so I usually go give them a treat and a bit stroke. then il be out poss 2 and half hours @ the most, tinsel then gets took out about 4 to 5pm and theres a bit more barking goes on but not for hours again, it wud b for a few mins!!!
my partner peter has rang the council 4 times to speak to the man we got the letter off as it says the people who have complained have to keep a record for 2 weeks (I am also keeping a record) then if its still interfering with their property, god knows how like, they will install the sound equipment and take it from there. So my peter is now saying well if it comes to it we will have to get some of them put to sleep. I told him where to go and said id go to prison before I did that like!!! anyway I actually live in a detached house on the corner of the street and the side of my house and garden backs on to a main road where 100s of people pass daily! Ive asked the neighbour across the road if she ever hears them as she always has her windows open, she said hardly ever. my immediate neighbour is the local councillor and ive just been looking after her house whilst shes been on holiday and I know if it was her she wud have come to my door and told me they r making a noise when I m out or wotever. anyway peter had a word with her today to see what if anything will happen shes going to try and find out. I came home from getting my haircut and tipped today driving slowly past my own friggen house with windows open to see if there was any barking, there wasn't. I even parked along the rd so the dogs didn't hear my car. of course I went to get tinsel and there was a bit of barking for a dew mins and the same when I came back which of course they will do. but there will be total silence from now till 6.45am tomorrow. its got me stressed to hell like!

ain't nobody got the time read this
i need a tl;dr

[Cherry Christmas]

I read it Mizzy it will be some misery. Maybe go to the house at the back if you and enquire if they complained and try and sort it out, you could also maybe get something in writing from your neighbours who say they don't bark much so you have proof for the council, they will do their own checks anyway they wont just take the complainees word for it. Dont worry about it, it will all blow over, tell Peter you will have him put down if he suggests putting some of the dogs down again.

[mizzy25]

ho Cherie, ive told peter I wud go to prison if they said id have to get any of the dogs put down but yeah il also tell him il put him down lol. Peter has spoken to our immediate neighbour who is the local councillor and her husband both have said the dogs don't bark that much the husband who I don't even like said if theres anything they can do to let them know. the councillor said she wud see what she cud find out. im keeping a diary myself of when they bark and how long for. for instance yesterday tinsel barked twice @ 6pm ffs shes a puppy and I was outside playing with her but just incase whoever complained was within earshot I said very loudly *tinsel shush u r not allowed to bark* its pissing me off now like.